
{"id":459,"date":"2012-03-30T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/?page_id=459"},"modified":"2012-03-30T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:08:37","slug":"this-game-of-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/lonelytimes\/this-game-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"This Game of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t lost a beat<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t lost a step<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t won the race<\/p>\n<p>But the game isn&#8217;t over yet<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes words are said<\/p>\n<p>Said that are not meant<\/p>\n<p>When &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry&#8221; just doesn&#8217;t seem to do if<\/p>\n<p>When &#8220;I love you&#8217;s&#8221; are not sent<\/p>\n<p>Talking seems to be a strain<\/p>\n<p>Silence is all that is left<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t touch you like I used to<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t say words fallen on deaf ears<\/p>\n<p>Try to be a good boyfriend<\/p>\n<p>Try as I might<\/p>\n<p>The harder I try it seems<\/p>\n<p>The more I remain out of her mind, out of her sight<\/p>\n<p>The future did look brighter<\/p>\n<p>If trust me she just would<\/p>\n<p>I love her with all I have<\/p>\n<p>To love her like I should<\/p>\n<p>I will not lose her<\/p>\n<p>This I truly will not let happen<\/p>\n<p>For she is my dream, my vision, my shadow, my captain<\/p>\n<p>This road of life is neverending<\/p>\n<p>As the sun beats on my face<\/p>\n<p>My heart reaches out for hers<\/p>\n<p>But only seems to find an empty space<\/p>\n<p>It will be my goal to reach her once again<\/p>\n<p>As I breathe, sleep, eat, survive<\/p>\n<p>Because I cannot live without her<\/p>\n<p>Without her I might as well not even be alive<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t easy &#8211; relationships<\/p>\n<p>Not losing a beat, not losing a step<\/p>\n<p>And with you in my life<\/p>\n<p>This game is over &#8211; Done<\/p>\n<p>My life has become one complete set<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t lost a beat I haven&#8217;t lost a step I haven&#8217;t won the race But the game isn&#8217;t over yet Sometimes words are said Said that are not meant When &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry&#8221; just doesn&#8217;t seem to do if When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/lonelytimes\/this-game-of-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":109,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions\/460"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}